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2025 Holiday Wreath Sale

Extension Master Gardener Volunteers of Beaufort County Annual Wreath Sale has started!! Pre-order these beautiful, fragrant wreaths and garland and receive them in time to start decorating for…

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The Buzz on Pollinators: Creating a Bee- and Butterfly-Friendly Garden

** Article written by Angela Mason, Extension Master Gardener℠ Volunteer, Beaufort County Center**As gardeners, we often focus on beautiful blooms, lush foliage, and bountiful harvests. However, much…

Molasses or Malarkey?

Sometimes I get the most interesting calls! Questions from plant, weed, and insect identification to various products to be used in helping us grow our plants. This week I got a question about using…

The photo is my daughter, Willa Grace, standing in the Pumpkin House at Stokes Family Farm in Greenville, NC. Photo Credit: Kayla Fox

How to Pick and Keep the Perfect Pumpkin!

It seems like it is finally fall! My family and I visited Stokes Family Farm in Greenville this past weekend. It was so cool, they had a pig race, petting zoo, corn blaster, ice cream and so much…

NC State University's Factsheet on Glyphosate Alternatives. https://content.ces.ncsu.edu/are-there-alternatives-to-glyphosate-for-weed-control-in-landscapes

Glyphosate Aka Roundup Fact or Fiction?

I did a class for the Cypress Landing community a few weeks back and one of the questions was about Roundup or herbicides that contain the active ingredient glyphosate. I have taken several calls…

Karen Thomas took this picture last week of our poor defoliated peach tree. Karen is a certified Extension Master Gardener Volunteer from our most recent class in 2022.

Even When You Do It All the Right Way...

I have an Extension Master Gardener℠ Volunteer that says, “Growing fruits and vegetables should be more of a hobby. There are so many things that can go wrong, if you look at growing a garden as if…

The Angel Oak

I had the opportunity to travel to Charleston, South Carolina a few weeks back to attend a meeting with my wife. We took our two youngest daughters with us and did all of the touristy things. We had…